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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.”
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
“Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.”
“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”
“Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.”
“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.”
“When all else is lost, the future still remains.”
“Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.”
“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
“The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”
“Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
“In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.”
“Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.”
“Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.”
“Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.”
“Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.”